China Record Corporation Updated +Created
The most important publisher, AKA "CRC Jianian". TODO meaning of Jianian?
Chinese government owned unfortunately.
Their website takes forever to load: www.china-crc.com.cn/, and features mostly Communist shit, and I can't find the decent traditional music listed there.
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IMDb Updated +Created
The organic Usenet origins are quite hardcore!
Video 1.
Discogs Founder Kevin Lewandowski interview by AnalogPlanet (2019)
Source.
International Standard Music Number Updated +Created
Why was this so rarely used as of 2020s compared to ISBNs? It would have been perfect for helping find obscure records from Chinese traditional music and Indian classical music!
But instead we have Discogs, which is not too bad.